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👤 Manuel J. Simoni found a great quote about the original Model-View-Controller architecture, which is different from the one we know today. In it 👤 Trygve Reenskaug writes:

One result of this endeavour was the Model-View-Controller architecture that I developed as a visiting scientist at Xerox PARC in 1978/79. Its purpose was to bridge the gap between the user’s mind and the computer held data. The centre of this solution was the Model that was a representation of the user’s domain information. The View was an editor that enabled the user to inspect and modify this information. The Controller coordinated the capabilities of several Views making it a comprehensive tool that the user applied in the performance of specific tasks.

(From the forward to 📜 Naked objects (thesis))

• By Smalltalk-80 the meaning of MVC had already changed to model-output-input separation we know today.

  • NOTE: is this right?

• More reading:

  • The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Its Past and Present
    • Especially "P-6: MODEL/EDITOR SEPARATION" and "P-7: INPUT/OUTPUT SEPARATION(MVC/1980)"
  • The "Naked objects" concept builds on this original type of MVC. However the quote above is a whole thesis, you can get a shorter introduction to the idea here:
    • 📜 Naked objects: a technique for designing more expressive systems